> [Wx] uses the native toolkit no matter where you run it

This is false. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24250968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259040 It was false in 2020 and it is still false today (I just checked).

I wish the Wx proponents would stop saying these things. Who exactly are you trying to fool? Do you have no concept of reputational damage? What good comes from a claim that is so easily disproven by just installing a Wx application and looking?

Do you understand the difference between a toolkit API and a graphical widget?

I’m not trying to fool anyone. I'm not affiliated with the project. I’m just aware of it and have used it a few times. You, on the other hand, have called me a liar and a fraud because I repeated exactly what the project docs state and which your two links do nothing to contradict. In fact, you linked to yourself being corrected by the actual maintainer of the project. Did you read anything he wrote?

> Do you understand the difference between a toolkit API and a graphical widget?

I think I do. I have taken a few minutes on the Web to compare that what I had in mind is correct. What was the point of asking this question? Was it to trap me in a gotcha, or paint me as clueless, or what?

> have called me a liar and a fraud because I repeated exactly what the project docs state

Good, you realise you are taking on the claims made by Wx on paper. However, there's more to the world. To get the full picture, you have to also engage with what I have listed. The docs say one thing, the reality shown in the screenshots say another. There is a contradiction. It remains unresolved, not for lack of trying on my part.

> your two links do nothing to contradict

You are not further allowed by me to invalidate what I was writing about by simply disregarding the evidence. Engage with the points I was making. The differences in look and feel between Wx and native are plain for everyone to see and verify. So, what now? Who is right?

> Did you read anything he wrote?

Yes. Examine this:

his claim> OTOH all the standard UI elements (buttons, checkboxes, text controls, date pickers, ...) are native

my counter-evidence> Well, let's verify that… https://i.imgur.com/uHfjoUs.png No, they're not.

his deflection> Sorry, I don't know what is this supposed to prove

So instead of admitting that there is a contradiction, he just pretends to not understand it.

Also examine this:

> look good

> look good

> looks fine

> look good

I never mentioned anything about looking good, this is a distraction designed to deflect from the central point I was making. As I wrote before, the central point made by me remains completely unaddressed.

Alas, I cannot deal with those crazy-making techniques, his behaviour measured by outcome is indistinguishable from the mentally ill. With the help and advice from a friend, I came to the conclusion that it was not safe for me to respond, so I then decided not to.

check comment history

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582720

Purely hypothetical, hasn't happened yet. The reason is that Linux system vendors are lead and staffed by people who are idealistic like the average Linux system customer. They know their clientele, they know it would be bad for business.

> Perl nowadays have TypeScript-style type checking for function parameters.

I can't believe that.

TS code, compile time error "TS2345: Argument of type 'null' is not assignable to parameter of type 'number'."

    function foo(x: number): void {};
    foo(null);

Perl code:

    use Kavorka qw(fun);
    use Types::Standard qw(Num);
    fun foo(Num $x) {}
    foo(undef);

This code passes CHECK (perl -c), but should not if you are correct.

I invite you to prove the claim. Rewrite this with any module you like.

Because perl5 Types::Standard went the broken python way of type hints.

cperl types worked, and actually made it faster.

Can the software dump the recognised pitch and lyrics and timings to Performous text format? There's no formal specification, but examples are available on https://performous.org/songs

Homepage: https://perl.petamem.com

In case HN shows its user hostility again by cutting off the URI fragment, the intended deep-link was presentation slide #/4/1/1

Ugh, deep links should be part of the path, and anchor should be where on the page to scroll. Very annoying slide software. If the content weren't so good I simply wouldn't bother.

HTML+JavaScript-based statically hostable apps (eg. presentations) can't use paths as deep links, since there's no standard for simple static hosting or URL rewriting (even 30 years later). Oh well.

You should be able to use the query part of the URL (after ?). You can get at it with Javascript, but it doesn't influence which static HTML page is served.

I'm not sure why people hate using the query string so much.

They absolutely can generate the file tree so that each slide has its own url.

They also could use the query part on the url rather than anchor.

Lastly statically hosted doesn't mean no URL rewriting, they could again catch links to parts easily.

The poor UX of these tools is just a lack of will, not a technical limitation.

Then again hacker news should probably not blanket delete the hash in URLs either.

Yes to both. Sailfish is a reasonably vanilla Linux with GNU userland. You install libhybris if you want to run Android software in addition to the native software.

Firefox 91 is installed on OS 5.0.0.73. Jolla just needs to spend resources to keep it up-to-date.

> Ghostty is […] feature-rich […] uses platform-native UI

What goes through the head of a developer when writing such blatant lies in the introduction text? What does he think he accomplishes by doing so? Is he so deluded that he thinks behaviour like this is somehow socially acceptable and the readers just nod along and no one is going notice and criticise him for that? Really, it's like the mind of children in an adult body, no concept of reputational damage.

I just installed Ghostty and cannot help but conclude that the claims are wrong, abundantly so. Compare it with the incumbent Konsole. It is clear to anyone to see that Ghostty has about 0.3% of its features. If I were to enumerate everything that's missing, I would not be able to stop until tomorrow.

It suffices to point out that there is no menu bar, no icon toolbar, no l10n, no settings dialogue, no key-bindings dialogue, no scrollbar, no search, and it would go on and on and on. The sad thing is, if the developer actually used the platform-native UI like he claims, then he would instantly get the first five without lifting a finger!